ABSTRACT
Architects have been late in both using CAD systems and taking to the advantages of the RP technology. However, this has changed drastically over the last years. Every architectural office is using some kind of CAD system today and, at least in Norway, a large percentage of them have at least tried to use RP. Architects have always got their inspirations from all aspects of life. From nature, from sociological phenomena, (Sky scrapers, Corbusier etc), from new materials, (steel and glass) and so on. The search for new shapes and geometries are a never resting quest. The use of computers to not only make a representation of an intended design could be of special interest. In Birger Sevaldsons PHD “Developing digital design techniques” (Sevaldson 2005) he discusses several ways of generating form using computer algorithms. One example could shed some light on this. In 2004, Ocean, an internationally renowned group of architects and engineers, delivered a proposal for the new library in Prague (see figure 1). The main geometry of the building is developed using a “growing” algorithm. Almost bio-mimicking the growing of trees.
